TY - BOOK ID - 6179722 TI - Historical anthropology of the family AU - Segalen, Martine AU - Whitehouse, J. C. AU - Matthews, Sarah H. PY - 1986 SN - 0521257042 0521276705 0511621868 0511868804 9780521257046 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Families KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Famille KW - History KW - Aspect sociologique KW - Families. KW - Kinship. KW - Marriage. KW - History. KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Families - History KW - Famille - Aspect sociologique KW - #SBIB:316.356.2H1120 KW - #SBIB:316.356.2H1130 KW - #SBIB:316.356.2H1220 KW - #SBIB:AANKOOP KW - Married life KW - Matrimony KW - Nuptiality KW - Wedlock KW - Love KW - Sacraments KW - Betrothal KW - Courtship KW - Home KW - Honeymoons KW - Ethnology KW - Clans KW - Consanguinity KW - Kin recognition KW - Family history (Sociology) KW - Family KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Households KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Gezinssociologie: historische studies over het gezin voor 1900 KW - Hedendaagse gezinsstudies: algemeen KW - Gezinssociologie: vergelijkende en cross-culturele studies KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - #GROL:MEDO-392.3 KW - ROLDUC-MEDO UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6179722 AB - This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has undergone a change, and has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled all social functions from socialising the children to caring for the sick and the old, to the modern nuclear family, which was regarded solely as being the locus for emotional relationships. Historians have shown that in the past there was in fact a great variety of different family structures within a wide range of varying demographic, economic and cultural frameworks, distinctive for each society. At the same time, the interaction between sociology and social anthropology has led to a clearer conceptual analysis of that vague, polysemic term 'family'; and notions of dwelling-place, descent, marriage, the relative roles of husband and wife and parent-child relations, as well as the more general relations between generations, have in a variety of past and present social contexts been taken apart and analysed. In this book, Martine Segalen reviews and synthesises a rich wealth of often little-known European and North American historical and social anthropological material on the family. This results in a reversal of the frequently held view of the family as an institution in decline, showing it instead to be both dynamic and resistant. ER -